Display-rack.



J F. DARLING.

DISPLAY RACK.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 19. \911.

1,270,709. Patented June 25,1918.

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DISPLAY mom I APPLICATION FILED SEPT. l9. IQI L I 1,270,709. Patented J mm 25, 1918 2 SHEEIS-SFIEET 2.

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a" FRANK DARLING, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

DISPLAY-RACK.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, J FRANK DARLING, a citizen of the United States, and a resident ofthe-city of New York, borough of Man- 6 hattan, in the county and 'State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Display-Rack,.of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to display racks and has particular reference to such devices calculated for holding for display or sale purposes-large rolls of linoleum, oil-cloth, carpet, matting or the like. 7 Among the special objects of this invention is to provide an apparatus of the character indicated for the purpose of holding a considerable number of independent rolls of heavy materials such as suggested above, from each of which rolls the commodity is adapted to be unrolled for display or sale purposes.

A, further object of the invention is to improve the construction of the several independent rolls or supports for theseveral rolls of goods, whereby danger of tearing, breaking or otherwise damaging the end portions of the goods will be eliminated. I

A still further-object of the invention is to provide improved facilities for transfer- 80 ring a new or fresh rollof goods to one of the standard rollers, whereby the labor and trouble otherwise involv d are reduced to a minimum.

With the foregoing and other objects in 35 view the invention consists in the arrangement and combination of parts hereinafter described and claimed, and while the invention is not restricted to the exact details of construction disclosed or suggested herein,

4c still for the purpose of illustrating a practical embodiment thereof reference is had to the accompanying drawings,-in which like reference characters designate the same lparts in the several views, and in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation showing my improvement, parts being broken away, the device indicating a series of rolls of goods and one roller upon which afresh roll of goods is about to be transferred.

Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same.

Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional detail on the line 33 of Fig. 2; and

I Fig. 4 is a side elevation of a detail to be described below. 7 Referring now more particularly to the drawings I show a display rack comprising Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 25,1918. Application filed September 19,1917. Serial No. 192,091. I i i a main rigid upright frame comprising two front inclined bars 10 and, .11 havingp'airs' of registering open toppednotches 12, shown as five in number for each bar.. Each of 60 these bars is supported at the rearby means of a post 13 with suitable diagonal cross braces 1% connecting them, and the tops of the bars and .posts are connected by a strong transverse cross bar 15. Any other suitable 85 stiffeners or connecting bars such as indicated at 16 and 17 may be provided as may, be found necessary or essential,

In each pair of alined. notches 12 is journaled a roller 18 having gudgeons l9, and20 which have direct bearing in thebottomsof the notches. The end of the rolleradjacent. to the gudgeon 19 is preferably formed polygonal at 21 for the application of a crank 22 or the like for rotation of the roller, the crank being interchangeable from oneroller to another. I

y In the practice of machines or devices ofthis general nature it is customary. for the inner end of a roll of material to be tacked, hooked or otherwise connected to theroller with a tendency for the goods to be broken snagged, frayed, or otherwise damaged. In this instance to avoid this objection I split each 'roller longitudinally through one end to a point adjacent to the gudgeon at the other end as indicated at At any desired points I provide a plurality of transverse clamping bolts 2t, 01' their equivalent, shown in this instance as extending through the end portions of the main body of the roller. These bolts serve to grip the 'end of the material slipped into the split 23 and hold the same with sufficient force for the purpose of the device, but without puncturing the goods or otherwise damaging the same. For the purpose of display, therefore, any roll of the goods may be unwound even to the end and again rewound on the roller with convenience and without danger of injuring the goods, or if the roller is unwound for the purpose of a sale or delivery of a portion thereof, the remainder may be wound up in an obvious manner through the use of the crank 22.

A roll of oil-cloth, linoleum or other similar commodity is ordinarily of great weight and hence is inconvenient to manipulate or lift to any such height as would be required to place it upon one of the upper pairs of bearings in the main rack,-but even if it could be so lifted the roll as it' is received by the merchant is wound either upon itself without a roller or is provided with a simple round stick or roller which is not suitable for the purposes described above inconnection withthe rollers 18. In order to manipulate a new roll, therefore, of material to the best advantage I provide a pair of bearing blocks 25 adapted to'be held in upright position just in front'of thelower ends of the bars 10 and 11. Each of these bearing blocks is provided with a horizontal shank 26 terminating in a tenon 27 designed to fit removably into an inclined mortise 28 in that bar to which either bearing block is desired to be fitted. As will be appreciated from Fig. 1 the axis of the mortise 28 as well as that of the tenon 27 cooperating therewith is arranged substantially at right angles to the longer axis of the side bar, and since the side bar is inclined it follows that the tenon acts in the nature of a hook in its cooperation with the side bar preventing accidental displacement of the bearingfb'lock. The height of the bearing block may be but little greater than the radius of the full roll of goods to be supported thereon and hence the roll may be lifted without very much difficulty or it may be rolled up over an inclined' block or the like so as to be received within the bearings 25 at the upper ends of the blocks 25. lhe new roll of goods may be supported upon any suitable stick or roller 29. Inasmuch as the support is more or less temporary said stick 29 may be held in the bearings 25 by means of pins 30 or the mortises 28.

the like so as to prevent any possibility of the stick riding up out of thebearing seats.

The free end of the fresh roll 31 may then be secured in the slot 23 of any roller that may be emptied or which may be located at any desired elevation along the main rack, then with the crank 22 applied to the end of such roller the goods will be wound ,upon the latter mentioned roller and from the roll 31. The roller or stick 29 may then be put aside out of the way as well as the bearing blocks 25 until a new, roll is to be introduced. again. The bearing blocks 25 may easily be withdrawn from themain standard bars 10 and 11 by'drawin'g them longitudinally of A device may be made in accordance with this invention of relatively cheap and yet of durable materials and has proved in my practice to be exceedingly useful, especially where floor space is to be conserved.

I claim: 1

In a device of the character set forth, the combination with a main display racln of a removable feeding device comprising a pair of bearing blocks and a hprizontal shank connected to each block, each shank having a downwardly inclined-tenon coopei ating with a similarly inclined mortise in the main rack and constituting means for temporarily maintaining the feeding device in lpperative connection with the display rac J FRANK DARLING. 

